justDIY Project Log

I’ve upgraded to WP 2.05, luckily, nothing went wrong!

Also, comments are enabled again, testing some new spam countermeasures … lets see how it goes!

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Due to a huge influx of spam in my comment moderation queue, I have disabled comment posting for the time being.

Once I get educated on combating wordpress comment spam, I’ll turn them back on, until then, feel free to email me your comments, and I will post them on a comments page or something.

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Wow, July is over already, and worse, I haven’t written anything for the entire month!

As you may or may not know, I’m in the United States, and we’ve been having a bit of a hot-spell lately.   Typical summers in my mid-western state of Michigan are mid 70′s and low 80′s, going into the 60′s at night.  However, this July, the weather is playing it a little different.   Most of the days have been 80+, and the nights are in the mid 70′s.   Today was a real scorcher … most of the time the weather folks are wrong for my area, due to a micro-climate imposed by Lake Michigan not more than a few miles from my house.   However, they were spot on today.   As I awoke this morning it was 72F at 7:30 am, 85 by 9:30 and 95 by noon!   By the dog-day afternoon, it was over 100, and the humidity was equally high.   Tomorrow and Wednesday are expected to be repeat performances, so all I have to say about that is – glad I bought a big AC early in July, before they all sold out!  My AC covers the first floor living areas,  however the lab is on the second floor, beneath a poorly insulated and darkly colored asphalt shingle roof.   So, long story short, the Lab is closed due to extreme temperatures.

I do have some things in the back-log to write about, including a wireless project mid June, a computer water cooling project in early July, and a new four-legged addition to my family.

Work has been very busy lately, which is good, work while there is work to be done, fill up the coffers!

Ahh well, there, July will not be a hole in my archives, there’s one post, boring as it is!

 ttyl!

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Some time has passed since my last post, and for that I am sorry.   I like to write about my technical endeavors, however, I’ve been feeling “out of time” lately.   Its not that I work late or anything like that, time just seems to disappear.   I get home from work around 6, catch up on personal emails and some news, then its time for dinner, and before I know it, it’s 11 pm!  Where did those 5 hours go!?

I have a list of things to write about, and I’ll be taking a little time off from the daily grind over the  Independence Day holiday to catch up on stuff.  Hopefully I can get some of these things written down, and make room in the ‘ol brain for keeping better track of time.

On a maintenance note, I’ve finally gotten around to upgrading my wordpress to 2.0.2.   The constant stream of spam which I hope to keep hidden from my readers has prompted this move.  I have some new spam-fighting plug-ins working behind the scenes, hopefully they won’t interfere with valid comments.

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The sidebar has been on quite a growing streak lately – first a bunch of new statistic driven links, and now many many new categories.

Since my post count is getting pretty big, I decided now would be a good time to organize it, rather than wait for it to get even larger. So I have gone back through every post, and further classified them into different categories.

It should make it easier to find things now, instead of it being all lumped under “Project”.

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